When I became my masked identity I was this incredible little nerd, but in the real world I had to be this tough kid from the neighborhood. – Junot Diaz
Therefore they should come to the table and reach an agreement that would protect their identity. – John Hume
I was sure we would never see the adoption of the Euro. Countries giving up their currencies for a common tender was, it seemed to me, completely out of tune with currency being a carrier of people’s cultural identity, celebrating national heroes and events, as it had been for hundreds of years. – John Naisbitt
I think social networking is absolutely here to stay. Now, whether or not the label will Facebook forever, depends in part, I think, on whether Facebook wants to try to be less proprietary, be more central to the operation of defining and stewarding identity online. – Jonathan Zittrain
In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live performance songs, not by the recorded identity. – Ian Anderson
We don’t need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables – the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers – to maintain their identity. You appreciate differences. – Jane Elliot
Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece – just different elements of belonging and not-belonging. – Jhumpa Lahiri
I think I passed up a lot of opportunities for love because I was too interested in identity politics. – Hanya Yanagihara
For decades, my identity was political, but I’ve come to understand that there’s no political solution when you’re dealing with someone else’s rules. – John Trudell
In my early shows, I wanted to put myself through a new childhood, disintegrating my whole identity to let the real one emerge. – Jeff Buckley
I don’t feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that’s quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government. – Iain Sinclair
You only trust those who are absolutely like yourself, those who have signed a pledge of allegiance to this particular identity. – Judith Butler
Melissa McCarthy just opened this new movie, ‘Identity Thief,’ and Rex Reed, who’s a known critic, wrote a scathing commentary on her weight. I think that weight designation is one of the last frontiers of bullying. I don’t know what the right ‘ism’ for it is, but I think that there’s a level of that that’s happening that’s certainly not okay. – Josh Gad
In many ways, being honest about ‘Huckleberry Finn’ goes right to the heart of whether we can be honest about our heritage and our identity as Americans. – Jane Smiley
Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That’s not a bad thing in and of itself. – J. C. Watts
When we cultivate mystical awareness or transcendent identity – which is a natural outgrowth of meditation and other practices – what happens is that we begin to take a witness position on our own lives, and that includes our minds. – James Redfield
I’m not trying to be flippant here, but I just play the guitar, don’t I? That is my characteristic, and it’s my identity as you hear it. – Jimmy Page
What does it mean to a person whose identity is very wrapped up in the music she makes, if her worth is measured by how many records she sells? – Juliana Hatfield
I don’t want to paint rainbows: I want to make art that disturbs identity and challenges authority. – Aman Mojadidi
I mean, movies in general tend to sort of portray time, space and identity as these very solid things. Time moves forward. Space is what it is. You are you, and you’re always you. – Joseph Gordon-Levitt
In a time where the world is becoming personalized, when the mobile phone, the burger, everything has its own personal identity, how should we perceive ourselves and how should we perceive others? – Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani
For me, I never ever felt the ownership or any identity with any community of disabilities. I didn’t grow up being told that I was a disabled child. – Aimee Mullins
We cannot consume our way into personal growth. Yet, millions of us have bought into this cynical concept of faux identity. – Jane Velez-Mitchell